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blyall@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (Ben) writes:
>>I am trying to get a single diskette bootable Linux system that will
>>allow my students to telnet from each pc to the Linux server.
>Yep, I use one called DLX.  I can't remeber exactly where it is, but use
>Altavista and search for DLX and Linux, your bound to find it.

http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html

Looks pretty good. You choose your own kernel (needs a ramdisk and
loopback device). It doesn't seem to have support for putting the
essential drivers on an initrd, but since you need so few drivers to
boot a floppy I'm not sure it really matters.

The system itself has a lot of programs you could really want,
including vi, less, traceroute, ftp, telnet, sed (no awk or perl),
bash, etc. Comes with libc.so.4.7.5, but no libm.so (which is odd:
it's only 34k). The system is set up to take particular advantage of
having a ZIP drive around, but it's not needed.

It's all a.out format (he claims that saves space), so that could be a
pain in the neck. But other than that, it looks really great. Unix on
one floppy is a nice accomplishment.

Has anyone looked into using bzip to make compressed ramdisks? I'm
hearing rumours of bzip files being 3/4 the size of gzip files.